Does anybody know if the BitTorrent links on the Slackware site are
dead? I have been having problems connecting for the past couple of days.

Grant wrote:
> Does anybody know if the BitTorrent links on the Slackware site are
> dead? I have been having problems connecting for the past couple of days.

By now most if not all mirrors will have the ISO's to download.

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"David" <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:36fyb.259110$9E1.1377753@attbi_s52...
> By now most if not all mirrors will have the ISO's to download.
>

Not available on ftp mirror.ac.uk site.


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On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 12:59 Martin Hughes, martin.hughes@nospamuk.thalesgroup.com, wrote:

> "David" <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:36fyb.259110$9E1.1377753@attbi_s52...
>> By now most if not all mirrors will have the ISO's to download.
>>
>
> Not available on ftp mirror.ac.uk site.
>
>
<URL: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/>
<URL: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/>
They're still there.
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On 2003-11-30, David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>> Does anybody know if the BitTorrent links on the Slackware site are
>> dead? I have been having problems connecting for the past couple of days.
>
> By now most if not all mirrors will have the ISO's to download.

I don't know nothin' about bit torrent, but I've found some mirrors,
including slackware.com, DO NOT have iso's for download. You try to
dwnld and get a 550 error stating "this is not a directory" and the
readme.1st file states:

"If you're reading this on ftp.slackware.com, you will find that the
ISO images here cannot be downloaded. This is because we simply don't
have the bandwidth at ftp.slackware.com to provide ISO images. ISO
downloads take a long time, and block people from retrieving small
updates."

Other sites, like perdue.com, only have .asc and .md5 files. It seems
the sites with the most bandwidth are the one's not dwnlding. I also
had a bad experience with LinuxISO.org, disconnecting after 10 hrs of
unfinished download time (I've got cable, fercrysakes!). I finally
found ftp.biochem.uthscsa.edu to be the hot ticket in the US. Only
took 40 mins per disc using wget.

nb

notbob wrote:
> On 2003-11-30, David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>>Grant wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody know if the BitTorrent links on the Slackware site are
>>>dead? I have been having problems connecting for the past couple of days.
>>
>>By now most if not all mirrors will have the ISO's to download.
>
>
> I don't know nothin' about bit torrent, but I've found some mirrors,
> including slackware.com, DO NOT have iso's for download. You try to
> dwnld and get a 550 error stating "this is not a directory" and the
> readme.1st file states:

Slackware.com should only be used by the mirrors.

> Other sites, like perdue.com, only have .asc and .md5 files. It seems
> the sites with the most bandwidth are the one's not dwnlding. I also
> had a bad experience with LinuxISO.org, disconnecting after 10 hrs of
> unfinished download time (I've got cable, fercrysakes!). I finally
> found ftp.biochem.uthscsa.edu to be the hot ticket in the US. Only
> took 40 mins per disc using wget.

Here's three more to try.

ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/slackware
ftp.slackware.at
ftp.kpn.be/pub/linux/slackware

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